Politics

El Jano ruso

Sep 19, 2013 Robert Skidelsky

LONDRES – Rusia muestra dos caras opuestas al mundo: una amenazadora y otra benigna. Ahora las dos se han combinado casi inesperadamente para desalentar una desastrosa intervención militar en Siria de los Estados Unidos y, probablemente, de otras potencias occidentales.

La situación interna rusa sigue siendo lamentable. Con el colapso de la economía planificada en 1991, Rusia se mostró más como un país con un desarrollo insuficiente que uno desarrollado, incapaz de vender gran parte de sus productos en mercados no cautivos.

Así pues, Rusia retrocedió a ser una economía basada en materias primas, que vende principalmente energía, mientras que sus talentosos científicos y técnicos buscaron empleos en el extranjero y su vida intelectual decayó. Rusia también está asolada por la corrupción, lo que ahuyenta la inversión extranjera y cuesta al país miles de millones de dólares cada año.

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Robert Skidelsky

Writing for PS since 2003
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Robert Skidelsky, a member of the British House of Lords and Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University, was a non-executive director of the private Russian oil company PJSC Russneft from 2016 to 2021. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999.

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Leo Arouet Nov 7, 2013

Rusia habla de diversificación, pero no existe tal cosa. Aunque muchos lo consideran un nación emergente, y en algunas partes están en lo correcto, como la ausencia de sus industria, aparte de la bélica, claro está. Sin embargo Rusia todavía está en la vanguardia en conocimientos, su capacidad militar está intacta, y su programa aeroespacial sigue vigente. Puede lograr un despegue aún mayor si sus gobernantes trabajan en lograr una Rusia equitativa y sin corrupción. La corrupción rusa es escandalosa tal como la china. Es necesario que Rusia encuentre una forma adecuada de luchar contra la corrupción que supone un gasto inmenso al Estado y las sociedad. Quizá logrando erradicar ese mal, Rusia pueda despegar, Take Off, y pueda utilizar los recursos del gas para financiar un estado de bienestar ruso. Y probablemente veamos a una Rusia democrática y armonizadora.
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Zsolt Hermann Sep 19, 2013

I actually envy those who already revealed that they have both a "good" face and an "evil" one.
Because the truth is that based on our inherently self-calculating and egoistic nature each and every one of us have both sides, the one that only cares about itself at any cost, most of the time at the expense and defeat of others, and the side that is open to help, to connect, to give.
Today the world as a whole is reveling the "evil" side, the ruthless, exploitative competitions, the greed, corruption, modern slavery, excessive and artificial lifestyle, all of which has driven humanity into the present dead end, the unsolvable global crisis with all of its facets.
And actually those countries that have no illusions about themselves, but know for certain their own "evil" side, are closer to freedom, closer to exiting the evil as they already have something very obvious to correct.
Those countries, mostly western democracies, who still dream about their own "flawless" humanitarian nature, perfect democracies, promotion of "freedom" are further away from escape as they still refuse to see and accept that they also have the same, flawed, corrupted human nature, qualities as everybody else.
"Revelation of evil", establishing the true diagnosis is the first step towards healing.
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